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BUTTON.

No. 440,371. Patented Nov. 11,189Q'.

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* UNITED STATES 1 ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. SOHLOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,371, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed June 14, 1890. Serial No. 355,489. (No model.)

To all? whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. ScHLoss, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to attachments for ar- [0 ticles of wearing-apparel; and my object is to produce an ornamental as well as useful article of manufacture, which combines a but ton and animitation button-hole.

In many articles of wearing-apparel, particularly ladies dress-waists and jackets, it is desirable to give the appearance of a buttoned opening where none exists, and to do this a row of buttons is stitched adjacent to the edge of the fold which is to represent the :0 location of the opening, and alooped piece of braid or cord is stitched adjacent to each button to give the appearance of the corded edges of a button-hole.

My invention consists in the article of manu- 2 5 facture hereinafter described and claimed, composed of a button and a braid or cord loop having one end permanently secured to the button, whereby the said article may be stitched to a piece of fabric and give the appearance of a button and button-hole.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my complete article of manufacture. Fig. 2 is an under plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective View rep- 3 5 resenting a piece of fabric folded and with a row of my attachments applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the attachment with the parts of the button and the loop separated from each other, said view illus- 0 trating one means of permanently uniting the button and loop; and Fig. 5 is an under plan view illustrating a slightly-modified form of attachment.

A is a well-known Florentine button consisting of front and back plates and tuft. In connection with a button of this character I apply and secure the loop by passing the ends I) b of the loop through the central opening of the back plate a of the button, as shown at Fig. at, and between the intermediate disk a and front plate a and then clamping the three parts of the button together in the ordinary manner, the central tuft a of the disk a projecting through the central opening of the plate a and forming the usual means for securing the button to the fabric. When the button is firmly secured to the fabric in any preferred manner, as by stitching through the tuft, a few stitches over the outer end of the loop, drawing it taut, and at other points, if desired, will secure the whole in position.

The line X in Fig. 3indicates the false edge of fabric which is to represent the location of an opening of a garment.

Fig. 5 illustrates a modification in which the ends of the piece of cord forming the loop are attached to dilferent sides of the buttontuft.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a fastening consisting of a button composed of a front plate or shell and an annular back plate or collet, a tuft a extending through the aperture in the back plate or collet from I the inside, and the loop B, having its free ends inserted through said aperture from the outside, and both tuft and loop being clamped between the front and back plates, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH W. SCHLOSS.

- Witnesses:

FRANK S. OBER, THOMAS K. TRENOHARD. 

